Walk San Francisco

Programs: Vision zero: in july 2016 june 2017, walk san francisco worked with community groups and city leaders to implement vision zero, the citys policy goal to eliminate all severe and fatal traffic injuries in san francisco by 2024. Walk sfs team of transportation planners strengthened vision zero street improvement projects and activated the vision zero coalition, a coalition of nearly 40 community-based organizations located around the citys most dangerous streets, to inform and support vision zero efforts led by the city. Walk sf launched a senior & disability work group of the vision zero coalition working to address the barriers to building safe streets for these groups, which experience a disproportionate burden of pedestrian deaths. Walk sf held the citys first commemoration of world day of remembrance for road traffic victims, helping to jump-start the san francisco bay area chapter of families for safe streets. Walk sf also monitored and supported the implementation of over 20 miles of street design projects, traffic enforcement efforts, and city-led public awareness campaigns.

safe routes to school: in july 2016 june 2017, walk san francisco continued to work with schools to empower families and schools to organize regular walking and biking events, educate families about traffic safety, and organize the school community to support traffic safety engineering and enforcement around schools. Walk sf and the sf safe routes to school partnership hosted walk and roll to school day in october, with students at 96 schools across the city participating.

walkability: to increase the number of minutes san franciscans spend walking each day, walk sf promotes efforts to encouraging walking and make walking more enjoyable. Walk sf helped develop the recently adopted green connections plan, a citywide network of safe, traffic calmed and ecologically sustainable streets to connect people to parks and the waterfront. In 2014, walk sf demonstrated an intersection mural project, where members of the public designed and painted murals at sunday streets (a monthly open streets event held in various neighborhoods across the city), helping to reclaim streets as shared public spaces for everyone to enjoy. In 2015, walk sf will kick off a campaign to create a permanent intersection mural program. Walk sf also hosts an annual walk to work day encouragement event each april, an annual, 12+ mile urban trek called peak2peak, and monthly walks for members, led by local volunteer walk leaders from the community, to highlight the benefits and pleasures of traveling by foot in one of the u. S. Cities ranked by highest by walkscore for walkability.